In 2016, the British School at Rome and the École française de Rome launched the Modern Italian Studies Seminar in Rome. To be hosted by the various foreign academies, the seminar’s aims are to bring together visiting and resident Italianists; to develop a network of scholars in Rome; and to further awareness of newly published material and current research in Italy.

The American Academy in Rome will host Leslie Cozzi, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy in Rome and associate curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, with a presentation entitled Drawing/Diaphragm: The Art of Marisa and Mario Merz.

The presentation will be held in English.